| If you have ever been victim of fraud before, | | | | and easily findable. |
| then you know all too well how ugly it can be. | | | | Below we're going to break up the different |
| The key to preventing fraud is to use common | | | | techniques you can do with certain types of |
| sense and investigate with all the information you | | | | information. |
| have. | | | | IP Address |
| Preventing Fraud | | | | The best thing you can do with an IP address is |
| They key to preventing fraud is to collect as | | | | figuring out the location of it. You can do this with |
| much information as possible. While more | | | | DomainTools or DNSStuff. Sometimes an IP can |
| information is generally better, there is such thing | | | | be off by a few states or a few hundred miles at |
| as too much information too. You don't want to | | | | the most. But if the IP location is in a different |
| go around collecting your clients' SSNs, as that | | | | country than your customer, then you may have |
| probably would scare them away. A shopping | | | | a problem. From my experience, the IP is usually |
| cart, or some sort of ordering system is usually a | | | | from an odd country. Generally IP is one of the |
| good idea in keeping your customer data secure | | | | most clear indicators, but it can be wrong. |